Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers · Kansas

BTI Ness City

Ness City, KS · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BTI Ness City runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

BTI Ness City: 3.6 TCR = 164% of Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BTI Ness City safety composite

BTI Ness City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

BTI Ness City: 3.5 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

BTI Ness City's TCR rose 4.0 from 3.5 in 2020 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Ness City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 164% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/36
  • PHOTO Corydon
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corydon (0.0 TCR gap)

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BTI Ness City in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows BTI Ness City averages 3.6 TCR (164% of the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

BTI Ness City TCR series: 2020=3.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 2.2

Where BTI Ness City falls in its industry

700 Planting machinery and equipme establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 36 Planting machinery and equipme employers in Kansas.

BTI Ness City (30 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate BTI Ness City
BTI Ness City (30 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

BTI Ness City has fewer employees than the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-t median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 7.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · KS · Ness City

700 Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Ness City, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Corydon 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ditch Witch of South Louisiana 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & B Operations Spencer 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goldman Equipment, LLC - Mer Rouge 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trinity Feedyard LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gray County Feed Yard 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centerfire Feedyard 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookover Ranch Feedyard 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ness County Hospital 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Craig HomeCare-Ness City 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Dayton Superior Corporation Tremont 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Hospital Tishomingo 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Motus Integrated Technologies 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Marine LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE R+L Carriers - IAC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inland Truck Parts Company 34 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gillespie Middle School 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Club 30 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.